To all my readers: thank you so much for taking the time to read. For those of you who reviewed, thank you; I appreciated your comments. Everyone else, PLEASE review….the more reviews I get, the longer and sooner the next chapter will be. It's not something I do purposely, but it almost always ends up happening….it's a psychological thing, I guess. Okay, I'll stop ranting and get on with the story! Enjoy! (=

Also: I'm sooooo so soooo sorry for taking so long to update. Really, I think I'm acting like Edward right now.

Ch.10

Kate stood at the checkout line in Kohl's. In all honesty, she had no clue what size the scarlet wolf wore, but she imagined he must be tall and bulky. Tan American-Indian skin, wide bulging eyes, abrasive muscles chiseled from running for hours on end. Kate imagined a face with sharp edges, marred but beautiful, eyes gleaming with pain beyond his years. When she looked in his eyes – not the first time, no, then, she was barred by her conditioned prejudice towards his species – no, it was the second time….the second time Kate looked into his eyes, she could sense deep pain. At the same time, a flicker of hope shone through his clear blue eyes. Hopefully the gray jeans and large red T-shirt Kate was buying would fit him. If only she knew it wouldn't even matter.

Almost forgetting that she was surrounded by unsuspecting humans - humans who were simply shopping, doing completely normal things without any reason at all – Kate hurried out of the store and ran (almost at vampire speed) to her white Sudan. Traveling at around 100 mph, Kate drove back to her coven's house and, flimsy plastic bag in hand, rushed into the forest, her feet trailing on top of the blades of grass as if they weren't even there.

"I'm back!" Kate called in her musical voice.

The wolf was nowhere to be seen. Kate should have been afraid, but she wasn't. For some unexplainable reason, she let her guard down. She would never make that mistake again. But it was too late. Before Kate could react, a deep growling stirred in the woods and a dark, looming figure leaped at Kate.

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Bella stepped out of Edward's car and soon enough, she stood by Edward's side, massaging his shoulders although he didn't need it. That wasn't the point, of course. It was a gesture of beautiful, unconditional love. "I love you," Bella whispered, kissing Edward's chin and staring into his soft golden eyes. Edward placed his hand on Bella's cheek and they gazed at each other, not realizing how lucky they were - how many poeple found such an unmarred, unconditional bond, a love that was a combination of brotherly love, romantic, eros-like love, soul-mate, unconditional, all forgiving love....their love was everything and more, something so rare, something so unbreakable, or they would hope so. Bella lefted her chin and, gazing into Edward's eyes, placed her lips on Edward's now-luke-warm lips (they were both vampires now) and kissed him passionately.

"Oh, come on guys, stop, or get a room," Alice said. "The vision isn't changing any time soon. Are we saving Kate or not?"

"Can we?" Edward asked, doubtfully.

"Hell yeah!" Emmett cheered. That was Emmet for you – always excited for a fight. Immature and high spirited all at the same time – it was all just a façade, the childish humor. Emmett had as many college degrees as any other Cullen – he just surrendered to the humor of the beauty in the beast more often than the others. Emmet would be Emmet.

And Alice would be Alice. "I wish we had time to go shopping…" Alice said, sighing, a forlorn gesture sinking down deep under the cloudy sky. White clouds scattered, painting the misty blue sky with dirty shades of gray. "Oh well, there's always tomorrow…"

Then the Cullens knocked on the door of the Denali coven's house. Out stepped a strawberry blond goddess like vampire, gazing at Edward with eyes filled with dangerous lust…….

To be continued (I promise)….

Okay, I'm sorry this was so short, but I have to read a book for my college literature class and study for a Chinese oral exam. I also have two five page papers to write, not due tomorrow, but I should probably start thinking about them.

The more reviews I get the sooner I'll write more…fanfiction is my passion (joke, well, half joke, anyways), there's no way I'm giving up on this! But I need inspiration to write; inspiration to procrastinate on junk work that doesn't matter in the long run in my future career as a novelist/vampire (yes, I plan to find vampires….and become one…but not until after I get something published in case the changing goes wrong and I end up dead.)

Love,

~Calliope-Elizabeth